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21/01/2013
‘Shocking’ inequalities in Scotland
'Shocking' inequalities have been revealed in Scottish society, in a state-of-the-nation report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. A boy born in a wealthy area of Scotland will live 14 years longer than a boy born into poverty, it finds.
The report is the sixth in a series of poverty assessments for Scotland, the previous one being in 2008. It assesses a wide range of indicators including those relating to unemployment, education and health.
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16/01/2013
14 million at risk of poverty and social exclusion
14 million people in the UK were at risk of poverty and social exclusion in 2011, according to a new report from the Office for National Statistics. The report also looks at how the UK compares with other EU countries on a range of poverty indicators, and at recent trends over time.
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12/12/2012
No evidence of ‘culture of worklessness’
There is no evidence for the growth of 'a culture of worklessness', a study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found. Even two generations of complete worklessness in the same family is very rare, and children of working age are keen to avoid the poverty and worklessness experienced by their parents.
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12/12/2012
‘Mixed success’ by New Labour on social exclusion
Real progress was made by the New Labour governments of 1997–2010 in tackling social exclusion, according to a new report. But it also argues that weaknesses in the strategy have been exposed by austerity conditions since the global crisis of 2008.
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03/12/2012
1 in 4 at risk of poverty or social exclusion in EU
Nearly a quarter of the EU population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2011, according to official statistics released by Eurostat. The figure of 24.2 per cent – equivalent to 119.6 million people – was higher than the 23.4 per cent recorded in 2010, and the 23.5 per cent in 2008.
The risk of poverty or social exclusion is defined as being in at least one of the following three conditions: at risk of poverty, severely materially deprived, or living in households with very low work intensity.Category: News stories -
31/10/2012
‘Self-perpetuating’ effects of inequality
Many forms of social disadvantage have a 'perpetual' character, according to the findings of a large-scale European research project. Past inequalities can themselves lead to future inequalities – not only for the individuals concerned but also for their children.
The report examines the key channels of influence and causality through which the social impacts of inequality can arise. It summarises the emerging conclusions from a wide range of individual studies, organised around five areas:
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20/09/2012
How welfare affects the ‘inheritance’ of poverty
Intergenerational factors have the biggest influence on income poverty in 'liberal' and southern European welfare regimes, according to a study funded by the European Commission.
The study analysed the relationship between poverty and social exclusion (on the one hand) and parental characteristics and childhood economic circumstances (on the other), using data from the EU-SILC 2005. It compared findings from one-dimensional and multi-dimensional approaches to poverty and social exclusion, in order to assess how far different welfare regimes affect the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage.
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18/09/2012
Social exclusion ‘on the rise’ among 50s age group
The number of people aged 50-59 facing social exclusion in England is rising sharply, according to a new report. Those being excluded from decent housing, public transport and local amenities increased between 2002 and 2008 - whereas the problem became less severe for those aged 85 or over.
The study analysed the most recently available data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Social exclusion was measured across seven domains including exclusion from social relationships, local amenities, financial products, civic activities and access to information, decent housing and public transport, cultural activities, and common consumer goods.
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31/08/2012
Perceived necessities of life ‘strikingly consistent’
'Striking' consistency is found in the things that different groups of people perceive to be the 'necessities of life' in the UK today, according to a new study. The working paper – part of the Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK project – used focus groups to examine people's perceptions of poverty, social exclusion and living standards.
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22/08/2012
The Poverty and Social Exclusion project, Mike Tomlinson
Presentation to University College Cork, Poverty Methods Summer School in June 2012.
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